News?

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/gore-it-is-obscene-that-bush-has-dismissed-george-washingtons-200-plus-year-prohibition-on-torture/

"On April 9, ABC News reported that in 2002, President Bush's most senior advisers approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics. Days later, Bush confirmed to ABC he 'approved' of the tactics. Since the ABC report, the media have largely ignored the story. Morever, it took 14 days for a reporter to raise the issue in a White House press briefing.

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"AL GORE: Ultimately the guarantor of our freedoms are the people. And these kinds of outrages, a president saying that he has the right turn George Washington's 200-plus year prohibition against torture and torture anyone he wants with his assistants gathering in the basement of the White House - according to recent revelations - personally reviewing the kinds of torture techniques being used prisoner by prisoner, its obscene."

Hey there, anyone awake in American? Anybody? Heeellllooooooo.....
Anyone there?

Anybody?

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http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/07/usdom8778.htm

"According to Human Rights Watch, the memorandum may indicate a specific intent by administration officials to engage in torture, which is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, a breach of several international treaties by which the United States is bound, and a serious crime under domestic U.S. law. The Geneva Conventions, the U.N. Convention against Torture, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights—treaties to which the United States is a party—forbid torture under any and all circumstances. "